For educators at every level—elementary, secondary, and university—this best selling book is an indispensable evidence based guide to effective reading instruction. New features in the updated Second Edition seamlessly connect and clarify the Sourcebook’s alignment to the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts, and support educators’ efforts to understand, transition to, unpack, and implement the Common Core Standards. more...

This collection of 12 discipline-specific formative assessments can be used to easily identify secondary students who would benefit from instruction in multisyllabic word identification—a skill that’s critical for reading and understanding complex, academic texts. The book contains three uniquely constructed formative assessments for each content area: English Language Arts (ELA), Math, Science, and Social Studies. more...

Useful for both beginning and older struggling readers in grades K-12, this book contains an easy to administer collection of informal tests for the comprehensive assessment of skills related to reading. These assessments can help teachers to identify why a student is having difficulty reading, determine what the next step in instruction should be to remediate that difficulty, and monitor student progress throughout the course of instruction. more...